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Harsha Bhogle is a cricket commentator and writer but it's his appearances on TV in India, the biggest and most cricket-mad country in the world, that have made him famous. Many of his television broadcasts attract a staggering 250-300 million viewers. ...

Government backbenchers supporting a leadership spill motion have said the Prime Minister is losing touch with everyday Australians. Do voters in Mr Abbott's electorate think their local member is out of touch? Saturday AM spoke to residents in the Mr Abbott's seat of Warringah on Sydney's ...

Backbenchers have been talking about Tony Abbott. Frontbenchers have been talking about Tony Abbott. The Media has most certainly been talking about Tony Abbott. But what have the voters been talking about? PM travelled to the key marginal seat of Lindsay to speak to some of the Prime Minister's ...

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Four weeks after a failed midnight leadership challenge in the Northern Territory, an opinion poll suggests the Chief Minister is unpopular with voters and his government facing an electoral wipeout. It's the first major poll in the Territory since the Country Liberals were returned to office ...

A 30,000 strong coalition made up of Iraqi army troops - Shi-ite millitias and Sunni tribes - have begun a push to take back the city of Tikrit less than 200 hundred kilometres to Baghdad's north. Tikrit is significant strategically because it lies on the road to Iraq's second city of Musul, which ...

Australia is to send another 300 troops to Iraq, to help train the Iraqi army in its fight against Daesh, also known as Islamic State. The Prime Minister says the contribution is prudent and proportionate - and it's in Australia's national interest to stop Islamic State inspiring supporters ...

The Prime Minister has accepted some of the responsibility for failing to get enough support for the Government's GP co-payment policy. The Government's officially dumped the plan, but will keep in place a freeze on the rebates paid to doctors and specialists. The Opposition has questioned ...